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I Patented Se ptLZO, I898.

No. 6ll,004.

L E S A D L E B.

ORNAMENTAL RING.

(Application filed Jan. 20, 1898.\

(No Model.)

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ATEN'I LOUIS E. SADLER, OF ATTLEBOROUGI-I, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO F. II. SADLEItdz 00., OF SAME PLACE.

ORNAMENTAL RING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 611,004, dated September 20, 1898. Application filed January 20, 1898; Serial No. 66 7,211. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LoUIs E. SADLER, of At tleborough, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Ornamental Rings; and I hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention has reference to an improvement in ornamental finger-rings; and it consists in the peculiar and novel construction, as will be more fully set forth hereinafter.

In the manufacture of ornamental fingerrings as heretofore practiced the blank for the ornamental hoop was struck up in a suitable die to produce the ornamental center. It was then bent up into the form of a hoop and the ends were soldered together to form the ring. Rings constructed in this manner wear out very rapidly near the soldered joint, because the adjacent metal is softened by the heat used in soldering the two ends together. The jewel-settings have heretofore been secured to the ornamented portion of the ring by solder and the heat used to secure the same softened this portion of the rings.

The object of this invention is to overcome these objections and produce an ornamental ring the metal of all parts of which is hard and durable. To secure this end, I form a suitable drawn wire into a hoop and secure the ends together by solder to form the ring. I now ornament the joint portion of the ring by stamping this part in suitable dies and formthe ornamented part of the ring at the jointed part, thereby restoring the hardness drawn from the metal by soldering by the blow of the dies. I also draw up from the metal of the ring a tubular thimble or thimbles and secure the jewel setting or settings to the ring by rolling the end of the thimble over the base of the setting, as will be more fully set forth hereinafter.

Figure 1 is an edge View of the plain ring. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same, showing the so]dered joint near the upper portion; Fig;

3 is a top View of the stamped ornamented portion of the ring. Fig. I is a side View of the same. Fig. 5 is a top view of the ornamented center of the ring, showing the tubular thimble drawn up from the metal of the ring. Fig. 6 is a side viewof the same. Fig. 7 is a top view of'the'ornamented center of the ring provided With a jewel-setting. Fig. Sis a side view of the same; and Fig. 9, an enlarged sectional view of the ornamented center, showing the jewel-setting secured to the same by the rolling over of the end of the thimble.

In the drawings, a indicates the wire, of suitable cross-section, of which the ring is made. This wire is formed into a hoop, the ends of which are secured together by solder. The abutting joint I) may extend at right angles across the wire of the ring or be made in any other usual form.

The heat used in soldering the joint draws the temper of the adjacent metal, and to restore this temper or hardness the soldered portion of the ring is subjected to the blow of the dies in forming the ornamented parts 0 o of the ring, whereby the temper or hardness of the metal is restored.

When the ring is to be provided with set jewels, a flat portion (1 is formed by the dies for the setting of the jewels. In the drawings a ring provided with one central jewelsetting is shown to illustrate the invention, but two or more jewels may be set into a ring. To secure the jewel-setting without the use of solder or heat, so as to retain the temper or hardness of the metal, I draw up in suitable dies the tubular thimble c from the metal of the ring and'pierce the base 9 of the setting f. The base 9 is now passed over the thimble 6, the upper edge of which is expanded over the base to firmly secure the setting, as

is shown in Fig. 9. By this construction the temperfor hardness'of the metal of all porportion ornamented by dies; whereby the of the end of the thimble without heating the IO jointed portion of the ring is hardened by the metal, as described. dies as described. I11 Witness whereof I have hereunto set my 2. In at ring, the coiznbina-tion with the Wire hand. a, the soldered joint and the ornamented center 0, c, of the jewel settingf, the perfo- LOUIS SADLER' rated base g, of the setting and the tubular WVitnesses:

thilnble e integral with the ring; whereby the JOSEPH A. MILLER, Jr. setting is secured to the ring by the expansion B. M. SIMMS. 

